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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Luckily
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Edge
Edges
Writers
Fire
Turns
Inferno
Always
Licking

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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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